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Compare 1577 edition: 1 During which parlement,The prince of Portingale commeth to London. came to London Pe|ter duke of Quimbre, sonne to the king of Portin|gale, cousine germane remooued to the king; which of the duke of Excester and the bishop of Winche|ster his vncles was highlie feasted, he was also elec|ted into the order of the garter. During the same season, Edmund Mortimer, the last earle of March, EEBO page image 590 of that name (which long time had beene restreined from his libertie, and finallie waxed lame) deceassed without issue, whose inheritance descended to the lord Richard Plantagenet, sonne and heire to Ri|chard earle of Cambridge, beheaded (as before yée haue heard) at the towne of Southampton. ¶In the time of this parlement also was sir Iohn Mortimer cousine to the same earle, either for desert or malice, atteinted of treason, and put to execution, of whose death no small slander arose amongst the common people.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After all these things doone in England and in France, Humfreie duke of Glocester, who had mar|ried the ladie Iaquet, or Iaqueline of Bauier, coun|tesse of Heinault, Holland, and Zeland (notwith|standing she was coupled in marriage afore to Iohn duke of Brabant, as yet liuing, and had continued with him a long space) passed now the sea with the said ladie, and went to Mons or Bergen in Hei|nault, where the more part of the people of that coun|trie came and submitted themselues vnto him, as to their souereigne lord, in right of his said wife, the ladie Iaquet or Iaqueline: with which dooing hir for|mer husband was greatlie mooued. And likewise the duke of Burgognie, being great friend to the same duke of Brabant, was much offended: who of old fa|miliaritie wrote louinglie to the duke of Glocester, requiring him to reforme himselfe according to rea|son, and to forsake his vngodlie life, both in kéeping of an other mans wife, and also in séeking to vsurpe other mens rights and titles.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herevpon went letters betwixt them for a time, but at length when the duke of Burgognie perceiued that the duke of Glocester meant to mainteine his interest, & to make warre against the duke of Bra|bant; he tooke part with the duke of Brabant so ear|nestlie, that he consented to fight with the duke of Glocester bodie to bodie within lists in defense of the duke of Brabants quarell, and further aided the duke of Brabant in his warres against the duke of Glo|cester, with all his puissance, insomuch that in the end (after the duke of Glocesters returne into Eng|land) the duke of Brabant recouered all the towns in Heinault, which the ladie Iaquet or Iaqueline held against him. And further the same ladie was by com|position deliuered by them of the towne of Mons vn|to the duke of Burgognie; who caused hir to be con|ueied vnto Gant, from whence she made shift to e|scape into Holland, where she was obeied as coun|tesse of the countrie.

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